City of Guthrie v. T. W. Harvey Lumber Co.
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Error from the District Court of Logan County; before Jno. H. Burford, District Judge. STATEMENT OE THE CASE. This was an action begun bv the Harvey Lumber company, to recover the value of a building which it alleged that the defendant, the Oity of Guthrie, had converted to its own ude in 1890, 'and for which payment had been refused.
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Error from the District Court of Logan County; before Jno. H. Burford, District Judge. STATEMENT OE THE CASE. This was an action begun bv the Harvey Lumber company, to recover the value of a building which it alleged that the defendant, the Oity of Guthrie, had converted to its own ude in 1890, 'and for which payment had been refused. The amended petition, upon which the case was tried, averred that the plaintiff had contracted, in 1889,. with the provisional government of East Guthrie, for the erection of a building upon lots 23 and 24, block 46, Bast Guthrie; that the city had agreed to pay…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the court by
McAteu, J.:
The assignments of error are arguecf upon the action of the court in overruling the motion of plaintiff for a new trial.
It is stated, as a fact, in the brief of the plaintiff in error, that the evidence offered a.t the trial did not tend to suport the averment that the Harvey Lumber company had oomractied to sell or erect any building whatever for the provisional government of East Guthrie,
The evidence show® that in the spring of 1889, the Harvey Lumber company, which was located in Ohio, had two agents in Oklahoma, one of whom was Alos-an dier, a builder;…
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